Anstey's Romance of Bible Chronology

This classic work on
Biblical Chronology is probably the best currently available on the
subject that assumes that the Bible is historical, literal and
accurate. It retains its authority in respect of its detailed and
scholarly analysis of the historical dates set forth in the Bible. It
provides definitive solutions for chronological controversies - like
the length of the soujourn in Egypt - which continue to recur with
monotonous regularity in modern creationist writings. It usefully
critiques the chronologies of earlier chronologers like Scaliger and
Ussher. Its main weakness for the modern reader is its outdated
attempt to correlate these Biblical determined dates with archaeology
as understood at the beginniong of the C20. These archaeological
interpretations are now known to be incorrect. The book also espouses
the discredited "Gap Theory" explanation for the geological
record, but this does not affect the scripturally based chronology
the book develops.(N.B. A critique of the "Gap
Theory" is available in the second part of this
article by Randall Hardy.)

Anstey is in 2 volumes, the first is the text, the second is the
tables. The material is available in the following file formats
(other previously available formats have been withdrawn as unsuitable
for modern websites):

OCRed Facsimile page images in
PDF format (Warning these are big files). The visible image
provides the exact facsimile text. The files are searchable, but the
OCR is unchecked and may be poor especially for volume 2: Main
text (PDF format file. 10.8Mb) and Tables
(PDF format file. 2.9Mb). Because of their size we recommend
that you download these files before trying to read them. This is
probably the best format for general reading as the original format
is retained. Note: you may need to download a PDF file reader from
the Internet;